Small Biz & Startups in Depth: Top 50 News Headlines on 4/7/15

“Do as I say, not as I do” is a common saying that has become synonymous with hypocrisy. It goes hand-in-hand with the idea that a person may demand more of others than they are willing to do themselves. For a business owner, executive o...

I'm often asked why I bother writing for different article directories on the web. After all, aren't I just helping the directory sites generate and monetize their own traffic? Where's the BIG benefit for me? 16 Vote(s)

Fishing isn’t necessarily sexy. But it turns out that it’s one of the most popular participation sports in the world, or at the very least one of the most profitable. Amberjack looks to capitalize on that by offering a ...

A startup called Kifi is rolling out a new tool that allows you to automatically save all the links you tweet in order to create a personalized search engine that includes those links as well as others it recommends based on what y...

Developing the former Interstate195 land is a chance to create jobs and convince recent college graduates to stay in Rhode Island, which is lagging behind other states in recovering from the recession, officials said Monday.

Peer to peer lender RateSetter is now offering a Self Invested Personal Pension Option (SIPP) in collaboration with London & Colonial and European Pensions Management allowing savers to invest in P2P assets for retirement. “We are de...

Social media is so pervasive in today's world that every entrepreneur believes instinctively that they know how to use it for their startup. Many soon find that what you do in a personal context doesn't necessarily translate to your busi...

You may remember Voice, the Adobe app that creates animated videos using your own voice recordings. Now Adobe is releasing a sister app to Voice, called Slate, that lets you create a story with visuals and design elements. The company sa...

WeFinance, launching today, is the latest startup to use a combination of technology and crowdfunding in order to offer borrowers lower interest rates on loans, while reducing lenders’ risk. The new peer-to-peer lending platf...

By Mark Robertson, On March 25, 2015, the SEC approved the new rules for registration by any non-public American or Canadian company to raise up to US$50 million during a twelve-month period through Regulation A+ offerings made to the pu...

An aggressive new policy to grow China’s semiconductor industry has Chinese investment funds looking for companies to buy in Silicon Valley. Integrated Silicon Solution Inc, or ISSI, was bought for $639 million in March by one such...

Ready to roll out new ways to make its global crowdfunding platform easier to use, Kickstarter has introduced new subtitles and captions features for both backers and campaign organizers. The crowdfunding giant’s Nitsuh Abebe, wrot...

Samsung’s new flagship devices will be in the public’s hands by the end of this week. The new Galaxy S6 and the unique Galaxy S6 Edge will be available for purchase on April 10. It’s currently available for pre-order. T...

The wildly popular Kickstarter crowdfunding platform has revolutionized project funding. More than a hundred projects have raised over a million dollars. What do the most funded Kickstarters have in common? They used video to capture peo...

Twitter launched its newly acquired Vine service all the way back in January of 2013, and over the course of that two years, we’ve never actually had anyone from the company on our Disrupt stage. But that’s about to cha...

To help combat food spoilage in rural communities, the team behind Evaptainers developed a portable refrigerator that runs on just sunlight and water, and helps small-scale farmers retain more of their harvest.

Setting out to bring a new version of its super popular musical instrument to the market, Sioux Falls, Minnesota-based Zivix hit Kickstarter with its “smart guitar,” the JamStik. The launch of the project comes nearly two ye...

When it comes to freelance writing, one of the largest components of your business is in writing proposals. Doubtless, you spend a good portion of your time as a freelancer crafting proposals, be they responses to requests for proposals ...

With nothing but a short surveillance video as evidence, the two suspects remain unidentified in a case that is running cold. Philadelphia police are still searching for suspects in the purse snatching and fatal shooting that claimed the...

By Brian Birnbaum Startups have enough on their plate during their nail-biting first months and years in business to have to worry about something like financing to sustain and grow their company. Yet sadly, one of the most common compla...

SellShed, a New Zealand-based social marketplace app, just hit its $250,000 crowdfunding target in less than four weeks, according to the company’s press release. Currently, 43 investors have pledged $377,600, with two days remaini...

It was a place for big ideas. Leaders in the small business community gathered for the VIP dinner at Infusionsoft's massive ICON15 Small Business Conference March 31 through April 2 in Phoenix, Arizona. And none other than Infusionsoft C...

The co-founders of Hip Chixs recently visited the “Sharks” of Shark Tank to pitch an investment in their company that has developed a line of premium denim jeans that “highlights a women’s natural body”. O...

Are you doing all you can to attract male shoppers? By Rieva Lesonsky The Hartman Group recently released a study of Food Shopping in America and it held some fascinating insights into male shopping behavior. Though the report was focuse...

Pay at small businesses has been largely flat for the last 25 years. Don’t think that means workers aren’t deserving of raises. They’re working harder now than they were nearly a quarter century ago. In fact, worker productivity ha...

Sponsored by Microsoft By Rieva Lesonsky Is your small business taking advantage of all that the cloud has to offer? Mine sure is—but apparently, I’m in the minority. Only about one-third (35 percent) of small business owners use ...

There are two critical mistakes I find most marketers make across the board. The first is not thoroughly studying and understanding their target market. The second stems from the first: not communicating with their prospects and clients ...

Ulule Challenges Global Crowdfunding Platforms with Rapid Growth & Stellar Success Rates. France is home to the Pan-European reward-based crowdfunding platform Ulule. Ulule started in late 2010. Since then, it has collected nearly €2...